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Logging as a stand-in for whenever IGDB stops bouncing on their thumbs and puts up an entry for Dark Souls: Archthrones, of which there was a recently-released demo. A blindingly ambitious fanmade campaign using DS3 as a base, but also picks apart countless assets and animations from the whole Souls repertoire.

It doesn't do a whole lot to really deal with my foundational qualms with Late Souls entries;- where I think the incoming damage is tuned way too fucking high. Necessitating the need to turn off the part of my brain that is capable of enjoying the cool fantasy adventure and instead allocate more power to memorising excruciating enemy movesets, and resisting the urge to fucking kill myself while looking at a blacksmith menu.

What's here is incredibly cool though, there's some serious nerve to calling what is essentially a fanmade standalone Souls game a """demo""" that is currently, playably, almost as content-rich as Demon's Souls. It leaning into the linear Archstone level structure from Demon's is such a salve to me, it's like being given five different adventure novels and being tasked to push your bookmark as far as u can thru them. Each of the worlds call to prior Souls entries to varying levels of explicitness, from a remux of Heide's Tower of Flame to an entirely new desert biome that is abso gorgeous. These locales not needing to necessarily feel beholden to eachother to have that interlinked coherence is just such a buzz of variety I love it.

In complete honesty i didn't play Bloodborne Souls 2 or 3 any more than the once (sorry sory) so my memory of the minutia of their locations and enemies are incredibly hazy. Even then, it's pretty clear at times when the mod runs a boss through something akin to the Pokemon Fusion website, Frankensteining together a funny little Radagon of the Boreal Valley or whatever.

Ultimately I'm just spellbound by the ambition here, what the mod desperately needs is some rebalancing to stop the enemies from being insanely damage spongy. I don't care how gud i need to git as much as I care about wasting my time doing 50 damage per hit on an regular mob enemy that has 10,00000,0000000 hp & will give a pittance of souls on defeat.

Big 'your mileage may vary' thing here but it's free and has a great installer so it's an easy recc. If this project sees fruition I can imagine it'd be special to the point of legal action being considered or something. Saria is a my queen etc.

NieR

2010

Games as art people are so fucking stupid. Imagine sucking the dick of a game that does Pokémon style “buy the game twice” bullshit just because you can pretend it’s deep lol

I actually have a patent on creating mid games people only cared about in the first place because of one mechanic so cough up your money Warner Bros.

Oh man this is one of those cases I was so stoked to play it and then it like... feels so bad to play RIP... they should port this to mobile or something idk. Now, even if the motion controls WERE good I think there's something to be said about the RPG vocabulary not really fitting too well with the action. I think this would work better if they went in more of an arcade/action/adventure direction? Faster paced stages, quicker combat, a world map or something, etc.


DO NOT SUPPORT GAMES MADE BY TAILOR SWIFT FANS

I liked dressing up my dog and the tonal clash of the happy Wii dog graphics and the heavy illness-focused slice of life story. Actually even sniffing around for new items was kinda fun. But the way the two fit together makes them both mutually feel heavier, and there's not really any substance to the sniffing out of items. I was kind of impressed they would put this story in a kids' game: by all means kids' games Should be about these things! But the gameplay otherwise was kind of infantilely simple.

when someone talks about "messy queer art" they're actually talking about this

Bill Clinton was right about this series and one of the many problems with his shitty fucking crime bill was that it didn’t call for everyone behind this game’s creation to be locked up without trial

My copy came with an ad for a better game: Balan Wonderworld

I hate that stupid fucking pussy ass song that all the shippers squeal over. Why couldn’t they get real music like Metallica?